BCCA

Trade. Innovation. Prosperity. Trade comes first.

Trade leads to innovation. Innovative ideas lead to prosperity. Innovation and prosperity. More trade is where it starts. Trade comes first.

A Network for trade

The Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association is a network of chambers of commerce around the Baltic Sea Region. We stand for more trade and integration.

Reports and statements

Reports and statements by the BCCA.

The BCCA regularily make reports and statements. Here you can order and download some of them.

Towards a Single Digital Market

In the report Priorities towards a Digital Single Market in the Baltic Sea Region you get an overview of the obstacles to a digital single market, and a series of policy recommendations to overcome the barriers. The key issues taken up in the report are e-Procurement, Public Sector Information and Open Data, Roaming and Online Intermediaries. The report is made in cooperation between, the Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association and Baltic Development Forum. Main sponsor was Tillväxtverket.

Trade promotion through education 2012

Speech at the baltech-nortech conference in Tallin at the Tallin Technical university, 16 june 2012. The conference gathers the rectors and key staff of the technical universities in the Nordic and baltic countries. BCCA secretary general Dr. Per Tryding made an intervention on the need to move from exchange between universities, to integration of them and from funding revenue to funding equity in higher technical education.

“The European knowledge society should be something which is produced by European engineers today, not the catalogue title of a history class in Bejing.”

E pluribus profit – On private sector engagement

The Baltic Development Forum is by far the largest policy event on Baltic Sea policy. At the summit in Vilnius (June 2010) a policy paper with recommendations will be presented to the governments. It is drafted by Copenhagen Economics, but commissioned by the BDF itself. As such it uses many soruces and resources and this is the BCCA contribution presented as a short memo.

Building of a new business region – the Baltic Sea Region and its future

Article by Mr Wolf Rüdiger Janzen,
former President of the Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association

In this article Mr Janzen sketches a way forward for the Baltic Sea Region. He does so drawing on the roots of the development, which dates back to the 80ies – and even in some ways the 1970ies.

3T – Triple Trade in Ten years

Since the millennium, the BCCA has argued that there is potential to triple trade in the Baltic Sea Region in ten years. Even if China, India and other overseas markets have been growing rapidly, the bulk of every country’s trade is done in the neighborhood.

The Baltic sea regions share of Sweden’s export has for instance grown to close to half of all exports.

There are still huge untapped potential in Baltic Sea trade. Better infrastructure, implementation of a a single currency are among the more apparent. This holds true in spite of the current economic downturn following the 2008 financial crisis.

Policy Forecast – what policies matter for growth?

The BCCA “Policy for Growth” report, is an attempt to profit from the distributed expertise gathered among the participants at the BDF Summit 2009. The BCCA asked Summit participants to grade the importance of seven policy areas for future long term growth. Four areas stand out as more important than the others:

Environmental policy,

Introduction of the Euro to the whole region,

EU education and research efforts and

The new EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.

There is wide agreement that the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region as well as research and education policy of the EU are of large importance for growth in the long term. The latter is clearly where to put the money according to most policy makers.

About

The BCCA is a network open only to Chambers of Commerce in the Baltic Sea Region. It is run by its members. It has an elected Committee which consists fo the managers of some of the members.

The BCCA promotes trade and business relationships across the Baltic Sea Region. Over the years this has been done through action such as trade faies and conferences, through networks but also through information and analysis.